Cecile McLorin Salvant awards us all with her latest release ("For One To Love"), in the last of 9 new discs being added to the Jazz 88.3 Music Library the week of July 27, 2015. Ms. Salvant has been anywhere a Jazz music award has been given in the last couple of years, including the 2015 Jazz Journalists Awards (Winner for both Best Female Vocalist and Up and Coming Artist of the Year), Downbeat Music Awards (63rd/2015 - Best Female Vocalist; 62nd/2014 - "WomanChild" (Mack Avenue) Best Jazz Album, Female Vocalist, Rising Star–Jazz Artist, Rising Star–Female Vocalist), and Grammy Awards (2014 - "WomanChild" Nomination Best Jazz Vocal Album). Her new release and all the other great new jazz music will be featured by all your favorite Jazz 88.3 hosts in the weeks to come...JAZZ LIVES AND GROWS!

Teagan Taylor and her new release are "The Subject Of..." our Hour 2 (7-8PM PT) Interview, which also includes , debuts of the new jazz music getting added this week, preview of our Artist of the Week, Birthday and On This Day Upcoming Highlights, Jazz and Blues Calendar Preview, and more New Jazz Things! LIVE Monday, July 20, 2015, 6-8 PM PT @Jazz88 San Diego's Jazz 88.3 FM, Jazz88.org, and Apple/Android Apps to The New Jazz Thing @Jazz88 with Vince Outlaw...Supported by Listener Contributors like YOU and...YOUR BUSINESS (learn more about underwriting The New Jazz Thing!).

San Diego Jazz continues to expand in all directions including the atmospheric pop-jazz on Teagan Taylor's 4th release "The Subject Of...", one of the 14 new releases into themusic library at Jazz 88.3 the week of July 20, 2015. She is in great company with new music from Freeman brothers (George and Chico), Charlie Haden, Bobby Shew, Ramsey Lewis, Dick Hyman, and Jazz Live San Diego alum Henry "Skipper" Franklin (as 1 of the 3 More Sounds). Check all the new music debut on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw each Monday from 6 to 8 PM PT.

We are always looking for the Jazz-angle on the big happenings in San Diego and around the world, and one of the biggest in SD is Comic Con, happening July 9-12, 2015 at the San Diego Convention Center. And the Jazz-angle this year includes a special launch of San Diego native Igor Goldkind's "Is She Available?" described as a "Graphic Poetry Collection Combining Art, Comics, Jazz & Animation."

Antonio Sanchez continues his "Birdman" flight on his new release with his band Migration, "The Meridian Suite", 1 of the 9 new releases in the Jazz 88.3 Music Library for June 6, 2015. The drummer, who was snubbed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his soundtrack to the award winning picture "Birdman", performs an hour-long suite inspired by his movie soundtrack on his new album. Check all the new music debut on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw each Monday from 6 to 8 PM PT.

Kick off your Fourth of July Weekend Celebrations on Friday, July 3, 2015 at Noon PT with a 3 hour broadcast of the United States Air Force Band Airmen of NoteJazz Heritage Series 2015 Radio Broadcasts featuring guest artist Bobby Shew, a Tribute to the Greatest Small Jazz Groups, and a Best of Jazz Heritage Series program.

San Diego Jazz Musician, Composer, Bandleader, Educator, and Innovator Mark Dresser has been named as one of 20 recipients of the Doris Duke Impact Awards for 2015, receiving $80,000 to be used over 3 years as he wishes. Since April 2014, the foundation has awarded a total of $3.2 million in Impact Awards to 40 artists in the fields of jazz, dance and theatre. The Doris Duke Impact Award, in particular, has a unique nomination process, as explained by Ben Cameron, program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, "The Doris Duke Impact Awards are based on nominations submitted by artists, identifying others (often less widely known) that will have enormous impact on the jazz, dance or theatre fields in the future.

Dresser’s reaction to the award, as captured by Robert Bush, San Diego Jazz Writer, in an NBC San Diego Blog Post, "I felt gratified being recognized by this organization and it’s especially meaningful to know that I was chosen by a panel made up of distinguished but unknown colleagues in the field. I’m still trying to get a handle on the implications of such a significant financial prize attached and continuing to figure out what that could mean in realizing my music on a more dimensional level."

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for more coverage of the award, Dresser's music at Jazz 88.3, and more...

On the show...Sue Palmer chats about her new "Bricktop" disc and July 2 CD release party, all new Jazz releases, Artist of the Week Ahmad Jamal and a preview of this week's Birthday's and On This Day updated daily at Jazz88.org.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for show and interview audio / video archive, playlist, links, and more...

Among the 10 new releases in the Jazz 88.3 Music Library the week of June 29, 2015, there are 4 fantastic new Latin discs led by 50-time Grammy Nominated trombonist and leader Wayne Wallace's latest "Intercambio". Read on for the full list of new Latin and other Jazz releases, along with links to artist websites and more!

Ahmad Jamal, who celebrates his 85th birthday this Thursday, July 2, is the San Diego's Jazz 88.3 Artist of the Week starting June 29, 2015! Your favorite Jazz 88.3 hosts will be playing his music and telling their personal stories of the impact of his music overall and on them personally.

Jazz pianist Eldar, known as Eldar Djangirov during his high school years at Francis W. Parker here in San Diego, has released his new collection of live recordings "World Tour, Vol. 1" and it's one of 16 new releases to the Jazz 88.3 Music Library for the week of June 22, 2015. Here's the full list and later, links to the artist websites and more...

Bill Cunliffe, leader on over 20 albums and winner of both a 2009 Grammy Award and the 1989 Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition is the Jazz 88.3 Artist of the Week starting June 22, 2015. You can hear this fantastic composer, arranger, and pianist's music all week played by your favorite hosts LIVE on San Diego's Jazz 88.3 and Worldwide at Jazz 88.3.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for 14 albums you can hear Bill play on and to learn more about our Artist of the Week...

Tom Harrell is the Jazz 88.3 Artist of the Week starting June 15, 2015. You can hear this fantastic trumpter, flugelhornist, composer, and bandleader's music all week played by your favorite hosts LIVE on San Diego's Jazz 88.3 and Worldwide at Jazz 88.3.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for a Portrait in Jazz video preview of Tom Harrell, 26 Tom Harrell albums you can hear on Jazz 88.3, and links to more about this great Jazz artist.

Tonight on the show...We'll be debuting all of this week's new adds to the Jazz 88.3 Music Library, including the much anticipated...at least by me ;)...release of "The Thompson Fields" from the Maria Schneider Orchestra, 8 years after their last release "Sky Blue".

We'll also be featuring music and bio of the Jazz 88.3 Artist of the Week, Kenny Barron, along with a preview of the coming week's Jazz Birthday's and Milestones (updated every day on the Jazz88.org Home Page), the Jazz 88.3 Jazz and Blues Calendar...including Tuesday's Jazz Live with Chuchito Valdes, Jazz News, and MORE! READ THE FULL ARTICLE for links to everything we do on TNJT!

Hello family & friends, I am sad to say that the month of June will be the last month for the Young Lions series at Croce's Park West. I want to thank the people who came out on Wednesday nights to support the young musicians. I am proud of the young talented musicians for the work they put into promoting their night, preparing and rehearsing music for their sets, and showing true professionalism on stage. This is really where my passion and heart and soul is, watching these young adults blossom into amazing musicians! I also want to thank Ingrid Croce and Jimmy Rock for giving us a home to perform for the last 16 months. I DO NOT want this to be the end of the young lion series! It's crucial that we keep this going for the future of jazz in San Diego! As of today, I am searching for a new home for the series! I would love to get the program back on it's feet by July! Please feel free to inbox me if you would like to share your thoughts/suggestions!

Keep jazz alive!!!

With love and respect,

Gil

Gilbert estimates that there have been over 200 young musicians that have played for the series, with 80% of them still in high school. The evening usually draws a big crowd with standing room only being not uncommon. Gilbert's goal is to "find a venue that can guarantee the young musicians a fee" in order to keep the evening free and "really pack the joint!" According to Gilbert, the lions have been doing a "great job" promoting their nights on the bandstand.

Jazz 88.3 is helping to get this search underway with this blog post, but this is an opportunity that will take the community of business leaders, art directors and presenters, music educators to move forward AND ESPECIALLY the support of Jazz, Music, Education, and Art Lovers and Supporters dedicating themselves to go and see and hear and exhort The Future of Jazz forward to do as Gilbert says, KEEP JAZZ ALIVE, at whatever home these Young Lions find next.

Kronomorfic, whose latest release "Entangled" is a favorite pick for Jazz 88.3's late weeknight Progressive Night's hosts, performed music from that collection, their 2010 release "Micro Temporal Infundibula", and other original compositions, before a sparse but enthusiastic and engaged audience at San Diego City College's Saville Theater and a much larger live broadcast audience on Jazz Live San Diego, Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Co-founder's David Borgo, saxophone, and Paul Pellegrin, drums, also sat down with Jazz Live host Vince Outlaw for a recorded interview aired after the groups performance.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for links to Jazz 88 Speakeasy Audio of the concert and interview, video of the interview, pictures from the evening, odds and ends, and the Jazz 88 Speakeasy Audio preview of our NEXT JAZZ LIVE, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 8-10pm PT with Chuchito Valdes Jr.!

B.B. King, an icon and world wide ambassador for the Blues, has passed away on Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 9:40pm in his sleep at his home in Las Vegas, the San Diego UT is reporting in a long and heart-felt remembrance by George Varga, who had written about B. B.'s many trips to San Diego. "The thrill is gone for millions of music fans around the world", he begins, using the title from a signature piece from King's over 6 decade career in music. At San Diego's Jazz and Blues 88.3, we send out condolences to the family of B. B. King and to his fans and supporters world-wide. READ ON as Blues 88.3 hosts, listeners, and supporters remember B.B. King.

Tonight on the show...Interviews with Archive Thompson, Pastor Jerry Andrews, and Robert Dove with new CDs and Release concert news, what's coming up this week in your ears, on Jazz88.org, and in Jazz, along with the debut of all the new Jazz music being released into the Jazz 88.3 music library the week of May 11, 2015. LISTEN LIVE!

One of the best things I find out in the interviews I have the honor of doing on The New Jazz Thing or as part of Jazz Live San Diego, or just in talking with Jazz and music lovers I come across is the influence of their family and upbringing on what they love as their passion and/or do as their livelihood. And while having a talented Jazz Mom may give you a little step-up in following in her footsteps, there are many other ways that our parents, and Mom's in particular as we head toward Mother's Day 2015, have put us on the path toward the music we love and play and listen to day in and day out. My Mom, in particular, made sure that we listened to big string orchestrated music which I think directly led to my liking of both small ensembles with strings and to the complexity that can come with large ensemble Jazz music.

It's Gator By The Bay time again and San Diego's Jazz and Blues 88.3 is pleased to be hosting the KSDS Jazz 88 Festival Stage featuring a great musical gumbo of blues, zydeco, honky tonk, boogie woogie, and more from opening night Thursday with BeauSoleil to Mother's Day Sunday close with Brian Jack & The Zydeco Gamblers. Some of your favorite Jazz 88.3 Jazz, Blues, and Second Line on-air hosts at will be keeping the party moving all weekend, so get down to Spanish Landing, Say Hi, and Let The Good Times Roll! Read on for the full list of performers on the KSDS Jazz 88 Festival Stage at the east end of Gator, near the Sheraton! READ THE FULL ARTICLE for full Festival Stage lineup and additional key links!

"The Latin Connection In Jazz" has it's roots in the history of Afro-Cuban music through the Golden Era of Latin Music "When Mambo Was King" through today's continued blending of sounds from throughout the northern and southern hemispheres. This wide range of music will be explored through presentation by Chris and the music of Justo Almario, who was among several Colombian musicians recruited by Mongo Santamaria for his band in the 1970s, notably on the album, Afro–Indio (1975). Justo will be joined by Allan Phillips piano, Tommy Aros congas, and Fernando Gomez on Drums.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for the a photo album illustrating "The Latin Connection in Jazz"...

The students at Napoli learn about a wide variety of topics in the jazz realm, including scales, reading, theory, repertoire, and improvisation. Our jazz music lessons take our students through the greats, including Joplin and Gershwin. In preparation for Jazz Appreciation Month, the students were asked who some of their favorite artists were, then the staff worked to put it all together into the first Jazz 88.3 Guest Blog Post...at least that I know of ;) Jazz 88 has taken the YouTube video's selected by Napoli as illustrating each of the artists repertoire and put them into a playlist on the Jazz 88.3 YouTube Channel (SUBSCRIBE!).

If you'd like to discuss your ideas for a guest post on the Jazz 88.3 Blog, send me an email at VinceO@Jazz88.org!

We've got THE BEST fans and followers on social media at Jazz 88.3! To close out our celebration of what would be the 116th birthday of the great Duke Ellington, let's share what the best social media followers and fans in REAL JAZZ RADIO-land think about this icon of America's Original Art Form, Jazz! And you can still get in the act...

Artist of the Week / Jazz Birthday’s / On This Day In Jazz at Jazz88.org, and

DEBUTING NEW JAZZ MUSIC! Jazz Appreciation Month 2015 Goes Out Strong With These New Jazz Releases To The Jazz 88 Music Library: Jazz 88.3 wraps up our Jazz Appreciation Month 2015 celebration with new releases for the week of April 27, 2015 that include the latest from guitarist Pat Martino ("Nexus"), saxophonist and Jazz entrepreneur (Cellar Live records / club) Cory Weeds ("Condition Blue"), and vocalist Mary Stallings ("Feelin' Good"). Your Jazz 88.3 hosts will be introducing you to these new releases all week, so Listen Long, Often, and LIVE at 88.3 FM San Diego and Worldwide at Jazz88.org!

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for more details on EVERYTHING from tonight's show!

Ella Fitzgerald and San Diego have long and deep ties, from her earliest appearances here in the late 1930’s at venues like the Mission Beach Ballroom and through her celebrated accompanists who lived here and still make San Diego home. And to keep the birthday celebration swinging, San Diego’s Jazz 88.3 on-air hosts share their thoughts on "Lady Ella" and will be curating some of their favorites tunes featuring the “Queen of Jazz” for you all day Saturday, April 25, the 98th Birthday of “The First Lady of Jazz” and in the weeks ahead.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for more on “Jazz An American Art Form”, Ella’s ties to San Diego, and thoughts and favorites from your Jazz 88.3 On-Air Hosts and Staff.

While there are lots of not-so-familiar names in the 18 new releases to the Jazz 88.3 Music Library the week of April 20, 2015, there are also some household names, including Ben Sidran (new "Blue Camus"), Harvie S ("Plucky Strum"), and Randy Brecker (along for the ride on Levon Mikaelian's debut "United Shades of Artistry"). Jazz 88.3 continues to bring you the latest releases ever week! You can check out the debut of all the new releases each week on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Monday evenings 6-8pm PT and then your favorite Jazz 88.3 Hosts will be adding them to their playlists for YOU to enjoy and learn!

Proud Mary’s Southern Bar and Grill at the Ramada Inn on Kearny Mesa and San Diego’s Jazz and Blues 88.3 are bringing San Diego’s Finest authentic southern breakfast eats and Live Blues Music together for Sunday’s Best Blues Brunch, with the inaugural hit on Sunday, April 21, 2015 from 11am to 3pm. Proud Mary’s owner and chef Michael Jacobs will be creating all new menu items for the Brunch including such items as Grandma's Picnic Basket with Fried Chicken, Hangover Helper with Chicken Fried Steak, unique “Benedicts” with Grandma’s recipe scratch Potato Pancakes, Graceland Fosters Waffles, and the Proud Mary’s Bloody Brunch. The Blues music will be LIVE with Blues music by harmonica, guitar, bass, drum, singer (whew!) Jon Atkinson with his Allstar Jammers kicking it off, continuing the new sensation that is the Jazz 88.3 Blues Jam each Wednesday evening at Proud Mary’s, with Jazz 88.3 On-Air Host J Otis Williams presiding over the Sunday Brunch festivities too!

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for more brunch menu items and information on this great partnership between San Diego’s #1 place for Southern cuisine with Live Blues Music and San Diego’s #1 Jazz and Blues 24/7 Music Station!

The Jazz stars shine the week of August 13, 2015 with new releases by 2015 NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd ("Wild Man Dance") and Cassandra Wilson ("Coming Forth By Day") among the 12 great new albums being added to the Jazz 88.3 Music Library for your listening pleasure. You can check out the debut of all the new releases each week on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Monday evenings 6-8pm PT and then your favorite Jazz 88.3 Hosts will be adding them to their playlists for YOU to enjoy and learn!

San Diego Jazz and Blues Weekends don't get much better than this 2nd weekend of April 2015's Jazz Appreciation Month, with great concerts and clubs, learning opportunities, and windows to the future of San Diego Jazz. From the This Is Jazz! series in Carlsbad, Middle Earth in Del Mar, Willie Jones III in La Jolla, and the Summer Jazz Workshop Open House Concert and Jam Session in Linda Vista, to Buddy Guy at Downtown San Diego's Historic Balboa Theater, there is Jazz and Blues for everyone to appreciate and celebrate! And you can always check out the Jazz 88.3 Jazz and Blues Calendar for complete listings of Jazz and Blues events, concerts, festivals at top San Diego venues ALL WEEK LONG!

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for more details and links of some great events presented by our Jazz 88.3 Partners!

San Diego Jazz has both a rich history and a currently thriving, invigorating and nationally recognized scene, or as San Diego Magazine recently characterized, “the renaissance of West Coast Jazz is happening right here and now." We'll introduce and explore the artists, venues, organizations, media outlets, both past, present, and emerging while hearing music from one of the top Jazz Quartets led by pianist Joshua White, who none other than Herbie Hancock described as a "cutting-edge innovator".

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for the presentation slides from the event and Joshua White's set list from the show (YEA!)...

April 7, 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the most influential Jazz artists in the history of the music, Billie Holiday. The impact of her music is something that Jazz 88.3 on-air hosts try to communicate when they individually hand-program their daily and weekly shows...As Jazz 88.3's Sue Palmer says,

"What a force Billie was!!!"

To mark the occasion, some of the on-air hosts at Jazz 88.3 have contributed thoughts and some of the digital resources they use when individually programming their music shows for their Jazz 88.3 listeners and supporters. Jazz 88.3 hosts today will be remembering Lady Day by sharing the great music she has made and influenced with you, so please LISTEN LIVE by radio, cable, computer, smartphone wherever you may be.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for thoughts, links, video's, and more...and then SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON LADY DAY via a COMMENT below or on any of of SOCIAL MEDIA platforms.

Jazz 88.3 celebrates New Jazz Music WEEKLY with the addition of new Jazz releases into the Jazz 88.3 Music Library...and the week of April 6, 2015 is no different with new music from some of the most recognizable names in Jazz including Cohen, Coryell, Elias, Gadd, Mabern, and Sanborn. We've also got the new release from Nhojj who will be performing with San Diego's Peter Sprague for Jazz Against Malaria (JAM) 2015, Sunday, April 26 at 4pm. You can check out the debut of all the new releases each week on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Monday evenings 6-8pm PT and then your favorite Jazz 88.3 Hosts will be adding them to their playlists for YOU to enjoy and learn!

The Jazz 88.3 Music Library is overflowing again with 14 New Jazz Releases being added the week of March 30, 2015, including the latest release from Jazz Live San Diego Alum Lisa Hilton. You can check out their debut each week on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Monday evenings 6-8pm PT and then your favorite Jazz 88.3 Hosts will be adding them to their playlists for YOU to enjoy and learn!

Jazz keyboardist and innovator Marc Cary's "Rhodes Ahead, Vol. 2" is once again "energizing" as he picks up 14 years later after the first volume in 2001 and leads the way in a list of great New Releases to San Diego's Jazz 88.3 Music Library for the week of March 23, 2015. You can check out their debut each week on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Monday evenings 6-8pm PT and then your favorite Jazz 88.3 Hosts will be adding them to their playlists for YOU to enjoy and learn!

Leonard Patton new release "A Beautiful Day" is out, so we'll get caught up with this talented San Diego vocalist and educator about what's NEW! Leonard will be with us in Hour 2 of The New (7-8pm PT).

Legendary Jazz Drummer Jack DeJohnette adds his touch to the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) with his new Jazz release "Made In Chicago", just one of the great New Releases to San Diego's Jazz 88.3 Music Library the week of March 16, 2015. You can check out their debut each week on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Monday evenings 6-8pm PT and then your favorite Jazz 88.3 Hosts will be adding them to their playlists for YOU to enjoy and learn! But first...

Charles Lloyd, Jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, in his 6th decade of performing and who will receive his 2015 NEA Jazz Master recognition in April, 2015, is San Diego's Jazz 88.3 Artist of the Week for March 16, 2015. His life and music will be celebrated by Jazz 88.3 hosts all week. Ruby Braff, Tommy Flanagan, Lem Winchester, Harold Mabern, Marian McPartland will be the featured artists each weekday from Noon to 1pm PT on Portrait in Jazz with Joe Kocherhans. Before we share more information on these past and living Jazz legends....

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz says ""Women have participated on every instrument, in every style, and in every era of jazz history. Yet, with the notable exception of singers and a number of pianists, female jazz musicians have been continuously overlooked in the most prestigious areas of jazz practice, marketing, and documentation." Sue and Janine attempt to set the record straight with a program illustrating, through both music and words, the contribution of women in Jazz from pre-1920's through today.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for images of some of the women to be featured along with more information...

Debuting The New Releases To Jazz 88.3 The Week of March 2, 2015 - Kenny G...Yes, THAT Mr. G...goes Brazillian, while Warren Vache remember the great Benny Carter and Jacky Terrason dishes out the Jazz medicine...and that's only a few of the NEW releases to the Jazz 88.3 Music Library for this first week of March, 2015.

Kenny G...Yes, THAT Mr. G...goes Brazillian, while Warren Vache remember the great Benny Carter and Jacky Terrason dishes out the Jazz medicine...and that's only a few of the NEW releases to the Jazz 88.3 Music Library for this first week of March, 2015. You can check out their debut each week on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Monday evenings 6-8pm PT and then your favorite Jazz 88.3 Hosts will be adding them to their playlists for YOU to enjoy and learn!

Ian Harland of Spiral - San Diego Jazz Vibraphonist recently matriculated from San Diego State University's Jazz Studies program with his Master's in Jazz Vibes...YES! We will be chatting about what faces a newly degreed Jazz artist these days and talk about an upcoming Saturday evening performance, 2/28/2015 at 98 Bottles with Spiral which just so happens to feature one of his professor's Richard Thompson!

Leonard Patton was scheduled for tonight's show to talk about his new release "A Beautiful Day", but something has come up so he won't be on. He WILL be with us on Monday, March 16, 2015!

San Diego's Nathan East has a new self-titled release out and he joins the ranks of Albert "Tootie" Heath (with The Bad Plus' Ethan Iverson), pianist Matthew Shipp, and other new Jazz Music releases to the Jazz 88.3 Music Library for the week of February 23, 2015. You can check out their debut each week on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Monday evenings 6-8pm PT and then your favorite Jazz 88.3 Hosts will be adding them to their playlists for YOU to enjoy and learn!

"Our beloved Clark Terry has joined the big band in heaven where he’ll be singing and playing with the angels. He left us peacefully, surrounded by his family, students and friends. Clark has known and played with so many amazing people in his life. He has found great joy in his friendships and his greatest passion was spending time with his students. We will miss him every minute of every day, but he will live on through the beautiful music and positivity that he gave to the world. Clark will live in our hearts forever.

With all my love, Gwen Terry"

The family has asked the Jazz world to post their remembrances on the website Guestbook and Facebook pages. San Diego's Jazz 88.3 would like to highlight comments from our listeners and supporters and the rest of the San Diego Jazz Community.We offer our Comments section at the end of this blog post as a place to share links to your personal remembrances and links to special articles about Clark Terry.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE to follow updated comments from San Diego's Jazz 88.3 hosts, San Diego Jazz artist and community, and links to other news about the passing of "Mumbles"

The Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach has 4 pair of tickets for Jazz 88 listeners and supporters to this Friday's, February 20, 2015 9pm, performance of Paul Thorn with Nancarrow. Paul Thorn's new album Too Blessed To Be Stressed stakes out new territory for the popular roots-rock songwriter and performer, a perfect match for listeners of Jazz 88's Blues, Guitar, and Roots shows. This is an age 21 and over show.

Enter your name, email, and phone number below during our giveaway on Wednesday and we'll let you know Thursday if you've won tickets!

This is Jazz! 2015, a partnership between the City of Carlsbad Cultural Arts Office and San Diego's Jazz 88.3, kick off the 2015 series with "International Songs of Love" with vocalist Allison Adams Tucker and Jazz 88.3 Monday Evening Jazz host Jeff Dalrymple ever-so appropriately on Valentines Day, Saturday, Februrary 14, 2015 at 4PM in Carlsbad City Library's Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium.

This first in a series of 4 programs is on Valentine’s Day and spotlights love songs from around the world. Allison Adams Tucker brings her jazz quartet to the library and Jazz 88 radio host Jeff Dalrymple narrates. Listen as Allison sings songs from the different stages of love! Early love, fickle love, being in love, breakup love! Allison has chosen some great standards, some contemporary songs and all will get the full jazz treatment. Also, since she sings in many languages, we will find out about love songs from other countries and cultures.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for additional info on times, location, the full This Is Jazz! 2015 series, and your chance to COMMENT ABOUT THE EVENTS!

Here's all the NEW That's Fit To Print...and being added for your listening pleasure to the Jazz 88.3 Music Library the week of February 9, 2015! You can hear them debut each Monday, 6-8pm PT on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw!

Joshua White + Polyphase: San Diego's far reaching pianist continues upward this Friday, February 13, 2015 with Polyphase at The Loft at UCSD. Polyphase includes Rebecca Jade (vocals), Jeff Parker (guitar), Stephen McKinney (bass) and Greg McKninney (drums). The show at this Jazz 88.3 Partner in support of Black History Month at UCSD includes special guests Stevie and the Hi-Staxx featuring Josh Weinstein. Joshua will be joining us in Hour 1 of the New.

Tonight on the show, Charles McPherson is LIVE in-studio for the world radio debut of his new release "The Journey" and to chat about this weekend's world premiere of his Jazz Ballet "Sweet Synergy Suite". We'll also be featuring cuts as two hours can hold from the New Jazz Releases being added to the Jazz 88.3 Music Library this week, a tune from Stan Getz, Jazz 88.3 Artist of the Week and preview of the week's Portrait in Jazz artists, a peak at the upcoming Jazz 88.3 Jazz and Arts calendar including Thursday 2/5/15 Jazz 88.3 Latin Happy Hour featuring Jaime Valle, and more.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for Jazz 88 Speakeasy links replaying the show, the interviews, and more....

The riches of the new year continue with this week's of new jazz music being added to San Diego's Jazz 88.3 Music Library the week of February 2, 2015 and ready for your favorite Jazz hosts to choose the best and curate a playlist FOR YOU! You can hear them debut each Monday, 6-8pm PT on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw!

JOE ALTERMAN – “GEORGIA SUNSET”

OMER AVITAL – “NEW SONG”

DAVE BASS – “NYC SESSIONS”

MAUREEN BUDWAY – “SWEET CANDOR”

GEORGE COLLIGAN – “RISKY NOTION”

ROBERTA DONNAY – “BATHTUB GIN”

DAVID GIBSON – “BOOM!”

POLLY GIBBONS – “MANY FACES OF LOVE”

RICHIE GOODS & NUCLEAR FUSION – “THREE RIVERS”

GYPSY SWING ALL-STARS – “LES NOUVEAUX BOHEMIENS”

EDDIE HENDERSON – “COLLECTIVE PORTRAIT”

ABDULLAH IBRAHIM – “THE SONG IS MY STORY”

CALVIN KEYS – “CLOSE ENOUGH FOR LOVE”

ANNE LAMPERT – “WHERE I WANT TO BE - SELECTIONS FROM THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK”

LA LUCHA – “STANDARDS, NOT-STANDARDS”

DEE DEE McNEIL – “STORYTELLER”

CHARLES McPHERSON – “THE JOURNEY”

SAM MOST – “NEW JAZZ STANDARDS”

DAWAN MUHAMMAD/BILLY HIGGINS SEXTET – “SMOKE SIGNAL”

RAY OBIEDO – “THERE GOES THAT”

ELLYNNE REY – “A LITTLE BIT OF MOONLIGHT”

“REX RICHARDSON & STEVE WILSON”

NICK SANDERS TRIO – “YOU ARE A CREATURE”

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE for additional annotations, links, and more....

Stan Getz, whose recording "Getz/Gilberto" won the Album of the Year, Best Jazz Instrumental, and Record of the Year (for "Girl from Ipanema") awards at the 1965 Grammy's, is the Jazz 88.3 Artist of the Week starting February 2, 2015, so you will be hearing his music, hand-picked and presented by YOUR Jazz 88.3 hosts all week!

Also in the spotlight each weekday in the Noon PT hour at Jazz 88.3, our Portrait In Jazz features are:

Pianist and composer, Kei Akagi, has been a mainstay of the international jazz world for over two decades. Perhaps best known for his work as a member of the Miles Davis band in the late 1980's, his career also includes extended associations with major figures such as Stanley Turrentine, James Newton, Joe Farrell, Al DiMeola, and Airto Moreira.

WOW...What a list of NEW JAZZ MUSIC being added to San Diego's Jazz 88.3 Music Library the week of January 26, 2015 and ready for your favorite Jazz hosts to choose the best and curate a playlist FOR YOU! You can hear them debut each Monday, 6-8pm PT on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw!

The world premiere of The Darrell Hammond Project is coming to The La Jolla Playhouse January 31, 2015 through March 8, 2015 and Jazz 88.3 HAS TICKETS FOR YOU! ENTER NOW for your chance for a pair of tickets to see the world premiere of The Darrell Hammond Project presented by The La Jolla Playhouse on Thursday, February 5, 2015 8PM at the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre on the UCSD campus.

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The Darrell Hammond Project, based on Hammond’s acclaimed memoir, "God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked: Tales of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem", invites the audience on a heartbreaking and hilarious journey inside the life and mind of an American comic genius, trying to unravel the mystery of how a man repeatedly climbed out from the depths of despair to become a world-class comedian. (Contains strong language, mature themes and adult situations.)

2015.1.19 New Jazz In The Jazz 88.3 Music Library - WOW...What a list of NEW JAZZ MUSIC being added to San Diego's Jazz 88.3 Music Library the week of January 19, 2015 and ready for your favorite Jazz hosts to choose the best and curate a playlist FOR YOU! INCLUDING ME!

J J Johnson, one of the first trombonists to embrace be-bop, according to Wikipedia, and an influence to many who came after him, is San Diego's Jazz 88.3 Artist of the Week for January 19, 2015. You will be hearing his music, hand-picked by your Jazz 88 hosts all week!

Joining Jay Jay (his aka) in the spotlight this week, on Portrait in Jazz from Noon to 1pm PT each weekday, we are featuring the following artists:

Horace Parlan - Monday, 1/19/15

Valery Ponomarev - Tuesday 1/20/15

J.J. Johnson - Wednesday, 1/21/15

Gary Burton - Thursday, 1/22/15

Steve Grossman - Friday, 1/23/15

Read the entire article for more on these great Jazz artists and your chance to Comment on your favorite tune, album, concert or other remembrance.

WOW...What a list of NEW JAZZ MUSIC being added to San Diego's Jazz 88.3 Music Library the week of January 19, 2015 and ready for your favorite Jazz hosts to choose the best and curate a playlist FOR YOU! You can hear them debut each Monday, 6-8pm PT on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw!

GENE ARGEL – “LUMINESCENT”

PASCAL BOKAR – “GUITAR BALAFONICS”

JOSHUA BRUNEAU SEPTET – “BRIGHT IDEA”

ANNE BURNELL – “SUMMER DAYS & DREAMY NIGHTS”

MATT CRISCUOLO – “HEADIN’ OUT”

JAMIE CULLUM – “INTERLUDE”

STEVE FEIERABEND SF BOPTET – “STORYTELLER”

DUANE EUBANKS – “THINGS OF THAT PARTICULAR NATURE”

HILARY GARDNER – “THE GREAT CITY”

AARON GOLDBERG – “THE NOW”

SAX GORDON – “IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS”

ALLAN HARRIS – “BLACK BAR JUKEBOX”

ART HIRAHARA – “LIBATIONS & MEDITATIONS”

JUSTIN KAUFLIN – “DEDICATION”

TED KOOSHIAN – “CLOWNS WILL BE ARRIVING”

JOHN MILLS TIMES TEN – “CAFFEINE DREAMS”

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS ONE O’CLOCK LAB BAND – “LAB 2014”

BRIAN PARESCHI – “AND THE BP EXPRESS”

MARCUS PARSLEY – “SUNDAY STROLLIN’”

SASHA’S BLOC – “HEART ON FIRE”

MARC SEALES – “AMERCIAN SONGS, VOL.3: PLACE AND TIME”

KENNY SHANKER – “ACTION CITY”

LYN STANLEY – “POTIONS – FROM THE 50’S”

JOHNNY SUMMERS – “THE PIANO SESSIONS-VOLUME ONE”

MANUEL VALERA AND NEW CUBAN EXPRESS – “IN MOTION”

CHIP WHITE – “FAMILY DEDICATIONS AND MORE”

PAUL YONEMURA – “REUNION TRIOS”

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE for additional annotation, links, and more...and COMMENT to let us know what you think!

San Diego's Chase Morrin was awarded the Jazz Education Network's (JEN) 2015 Student Composition Showcase winner at JEN's January 7-10, 2015 conference at the Manchester Grand Hyatt. His composition "Three Brahmin" was one of 4 works chosen by a panel of 4 adjudicators from 24 submissions and was performed at the conference by the world-renowed, Washington D.C.-based Alan Blaylock Orchestra. Chase is no newcomer to awards, especially since he had a small combo composition win at the 2012 JEN conference! The JEN Student Composition Showcase, designed to spotlight young jazz composers, gives students an opportunity to have an original composition recognized and performed at the International level. The winners of the 2015 competition also had the newly added benefit of a private mentoring session with a leader in the Jazz field. Chase's reaction to the award,

"This year was especially exciting and different than the 2012 JEN, first, because my big band chart won apposed to a small combo piece. This meant Alan's Orchestra played my piece which was a real privilege. Second, this year they paired the composers with mentors to chat about music, the future, etc. I was paired with Ellen Rowe. She was incredibly kind and gave me some great advice. I really enjoyed talking with her. "

Before heading back to continue his studies at Harvard, Chase will be performing at Dizzy's San Diego TONIGHT, Friday, 1/16 at 8pm with the trio he performed with during a separate session at the JEN conference, including Justin Grinnell bass and Charlie Weller drums.

Here is the performance of Chase's winning piece "Three Brahmin" by the Alan Blaylock Orchestra,

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for your chance to comment and send shout-outs to Chase, along with more information about his winning piece and the JEN Student Composition Showcase

Robert Bush - San Diego's premier Jazz Journalist joins us in Hour 2 to review his recently AllAboutJazz.com published Best of 2014 list (which includes a couple San Diego artists) and to look forward in 2015, including:

Pianist Joshua White goes global

World-wide lauded in 2014 (and on Robert's 2014 list) Wadada Leo Smith at UCSD in January with our own local treasure Anthony Davis and his UCSD students. Info on the date.

Bassist (and resent Jazz Education Network Conference 2015 clinician and performer) Mark Dresser has some exciting things coming up, including the honor of a week's residency at The Stone at UCSD.

San Diego's Jazz 88.3 extends an America's Finest City welcome to The Jazz Education Network and their 2015 Conference at the Manchester Grand Hyatt starting TODAY, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 and going through the late evening hours of Saturday, January 10, 2015 (and you know those late Jazz Jam session will run into early Sunday)! Starting with Wednesday evening's full evening concert lineup, there will be 71 clinics and panel presentations, 36 Research Presentations, the next JENeration of Jazz with the JENerations Student Jazz Festival, 77 concerts including Pancho Sanchez, Bobby Shew, Ann Patterson's Maiden Voyage, and Grammy winner and recently nominated again, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. Oh, and did we mention that Herbie Hancock will be delivering the Keynote Speech on Thursday, January 8, 2015?! YOU CAN STILL BE PART OF IT!

Jazz Live San Diego will be kicking of 2015 in great fashion with a series of concerts that starts January 13, 2015 at 8pm PT with legendary mallet man Joe Chambers, and includes San Diego's own Euphoria Brass Band, saxophonists Christopher Hollyday and San Diego icon Joe Marillo leading a quintet, and W.C. Handy Blues Award nominee The Missy Andersen Band. Jazz Live San Diego is San Diego's Jazz 88.3's monthly (twice a month June/July) live concert series from the Saville Theatre on the San Diego City College campus broadcast world wide on Jazz 88.3 and Jazz88.org,

READ THE FULL ARTICLE for more about these upcoming shows and how YOU CAN GET IN FREE!

Jazz Education Network Conference 2015...aka #JEN15...swings into San Diego Wednesday, January 7 through Saturday, January 10, with clinics, presentations, vendors, and shows Shows SHOWS! Tonight we preview the conference and the special JENerosity Celebration Fundraiser event in Hour 2 with members of the JEN board.

JENerosity Celebration 2015, with a full late afternoon to late evening of dinner, cocktails, honorees, and performances by Mundell Lowe, Pancho Sanchez, and many more, in support of the Jazz Education Network's (JEN) Jazz Music and Education scholarship and outreach programs takes place on Friday, January 9, 2015, as part of JEN's 2015 Conference at the Manchester Grand Hyatt. Your $125 donation ($88 for conference attendees) includes a late afternoon concern by Mundell Lowe starting at 3pm, the JENerosity Celebration of music, cocktails, dinner, and awards with artists including NEA Jazz Master Jamey Aebersold, Lynne Arriale, John Clayton, Charles McPherson, Holly Hoffman and more, a special performance by 2015 JEN LeJENds of Latin Jazz Poncho Sanchez, special seating at the conference's evening concerts including Caliente, Joe Santerre Ensemble, Army Jazz Ambassadors with Bobby Shew, and m-pact. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW for this NOT TO BE MISSED evening of and for Jazz in San Diego!

Milt Jackson is our Artist of the Week for this last week of 2014, December 29, 2014, and, appropriately, the first days of 2015. You will hear the music of one of the greatest Jazz vibraphonist ever all week on San Diego's Jazz 88.3 and Jazz88.org, in addition to a new Portrait in Jazz featuring a different Jazz artist each weekday between Noon and 1 PM PT...with this Wednesday, December 31, 2014...New Year's Eve...being a special day when we will be playing, in their entirety, the Top 10 Jazz Releases of 2014 from 10AM to 9PM.